RAND finds cases of undiagnosed diabetes drop sharply
...sed diabetes, despite the fact that obesity is the second largest risk factor for the disease following family history. It may be that since the link between obesity and diabetes has received wide attention only in recent years, it may take more time for physicians to routinely test the obese for the dise...Stomach cancer rate set to fall further 25 percent over next decade
...h cancer is the fourth most common cancer, and the second leading cause of cancer related death, in the world. The findings are based on the long term monitoring of the three types of cell changes indicative of subsequent stomach cancer. The authors tracked all new cases of atrophic gastritis, intestina...Disability payments may spur drug abuse
... month and hospital admissions begin rising on the second while DI aid arrives on the third of the month and the admissions surge begins on the fourth, says lead author, Carlos Dobkin, PhD, with the University of California, Santa Cruz. However, the investigators found that contrary to what some analysts h...MRI finds breast cancer before it becomes dangerous
.... MRT is far more sensitive than mammography.' The second prejudice is that MRT often leads to 'false positives', i.e. often causes 'false alarms'. 'Among our patients that was even less the case with MRI than with mammography,' Professor Kuhl emphasises. 'The positive predictive value of MRT was 59 per cen...Investigators uncover intriguing clues to why persistent acid reflux sometimes turns into cancer
...e anymore, so they die out, Dr. Spechler said. The second paper suggests that the bone-marrow cells may then come and take their place, giving rise to the intestinal cells instead of the normal, skin-like cells. Further research will be needed to confirm that hypothesis, Dr. Souza said. Its an interesti...New study shows promise in reducing surgical risks associated with surgical bleeding
... patients (n=206) was treated with bThrombin and a second group (n=205) was treated with rhThrombin, both of which were applied topically to the bleeding site(s) in combination with an absorbable gelatin sponge. The primary endpoint was the time it took for hemostasis to occur, as measured by the incidence ...Nationwide data highlight encouraging trends, 'staggering' costs of ESRD
...w continued reductions in risk of death during the second through fifth years of dialysis. "While most of these findings are grounds for cautious optimism, the same cannot be said for issues of cost," Drs. Foley and Collins write. With the continued growth of the ESRD population, costs grew by 57 percent ...WPI wins $1M to develop system to locate and monitor emergency workers in buildings
...e award came just a few days before WPI hosted its second annual workshop on Precision Indoor Personnel Location and Tracking for Emergency Responders. The two-day workshop, held on Aug. 6-7, 2007, is the only national forum for researchers, corporate R&D leaders, national policy makers, and public safety d...Backache sufferers who fear pain change movements
...after their recovery from a back pain injury. This second piece, which will wrap up in May 2008, aims to confirm whether pain avoiders are indeed more likely to reinjure their backs. About half of the data has been collected to date, in partnership with Ohio State University, Thomas said. Researchers hop...Green tea holds promise as new treatment for inflammatory skin diseases
... long term, may cause squamous cell carcinoma the second most common form of skin cancer, Dr. Hsu says. Some of the most effective anti-dandruff shampoos also have carcinogens in them. While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allows that in small amounts, the bottom line is that we dont know the long-te...Many heart attack patients still not getting emergency clot-busting treatment
... second; the rate of increase leveled off from the second time period to the third. Correspondingly, the number of patients receiving medication-based reperfusion dropped over the study period. This is an appropriate shift, says Nallamothu: shifting patients from clot-busting medications to emergency ang...International symposium on fruit, vegetables headed for Houston
... at the Omni Hotel Houston, Four Riverway, for the second international symposium on how produce affects human health, according to Dr. Bhimu Patil, director of the Texas A&M University Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center and conference chair. Patil said sessions will include the use of fruits and vege...Electric fields have potential as a cancer treatment
... apparently disrupted, by an electric field. The second effect of the 200 kHz fields is that they sometimes disintegrated the daughter cells just before they split off from their partners. The dividing cells sometimes destruct because a high-electric-field region develops between the two daughter cells. T...Study shows radiofrequency ablation highly effective in treating kidney tumors
...16 remaining larger tumors were eradicated after a second treatment, for a total 93 percent success rate for all 125 tumors. The results, reported in the August issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology, were based on follow-up exams over an average of about 14 months. This is the largest treatm...Study says normal but out-of-control enzyme may be culprit that signals some cells to become cancer
...nal Gastroenterology. Colorectal [cancer] is the second leading cause of cancer mortality, and the molecular pathways [by which it develops] remain incompletely understood, said Dong, a McKnight Presidential Professor in cancer prevention and director of the universitys Hormel Institute in Austin, Minn. I...HealthGrades study: Bariatric surgery patients have fewer complications at high-volume hospitals
...dure was also found in the study, according to the second annual HealthGrades Bariatric Surgery Trends in Am...are below average receive a one-star rating. The second annual HealthGrades Bariatric Surgery Trends in American Hospitals Study found that: Hospitals ra...Science steps in to discover wonders of Toe-tankhamun
...xact replica of the artificial toe. A model of a second false Egyptian big toe on display in the British Museum, albeit without its mummy, will also be tested at the Human Performance Laboratory at nearby University of Salford. The toes date from between 1000 and 600BC, so if we can prove that one or bo...Health reform bills could improve quality and efficiency, but fall short of national plan
...2005-2007: Part II, Quality and Efficiency, is the second installment in a two-part series assessing major health care proposals before Congress. The analysis indicates that bills seeking to change Medicares payment structure hold the most promise for health care savings and quality improvement. The first i...Trials underway for 'essential' new TB vaccine
...h more effective, vaccine against TB is going into second stage trials. The TB bacterium has for too long managed to stay a step ahead of human efforts as shown by the appearance, especially in HIV positive populations in Southern Africa, of a strain of tuberculosis resistant to virtually all known drugs ag...Worcester Polytechnic Institute to host national forum on locating first responders inside buildings
...orcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) will hold its second annual workshop on Precision Indoor Personnel Location and Tracking for Emergency Responders, the only national forum for researchers, corporate R&D leaders, national policy makers, and public safety departments on this critical challenge, on Aug. 6 ...